I have always pushed myself to the extreme in many facets of my life. I played lacrosse in high school which allowed me to get recruited to some of the best colleges in the country. When I got to Amherst College, I gained an affinity for computer science and soon found myself taking twice as many classes as I needed to major in CS. While there is also played lacrosse and sang in the Glee Club.

After college I went to Bridgewater as an engineer and quickly found myself working as an Investment Engineer on the FX research team. I have some wild stories from those years 😄. But I realized I wanted to do more in ML/AI and left Bridgewater for a small start-up in NYC where I got deep into building neural network models.

At the same time, I also applied to HBS and was accepted and started a year later. HBS really opened the aperture of what was possible in life and the different paths I could take.

If you want to hear more, happy to tell you over a call!

Lastly, I've always mentored those earlier in their career than me as it is one of the activities which brings me energy, in a world where many activities deplete. I have helped many navigate finance (hedge funds), start-ups, and venture capital.

• Breaking into Venture Capital (I don’t think it is as hard as many think if you take the right steps!)
• Navigating large career transitions (I have had many call me crazy for the pivots I have made)
• Starting your own company (I started mine over three years ago)
• Leveraging a technical skillset in a changing world
• How to think through moving from hands-on-keys work to managerial work

Professional:

• Balancing the things you want to do with what others around you are doing
• Finding the things that bring you energy and building space for them
• How to think about business school in context and making the most of it. One of my old blogs → here
• Fundraising: Always happy to help think through and evaluate pitch decks

Personal:

• Privacy and the increasing public apathy around it as a primary concern
• Pushing yourself / extreme outdoors endeavors - I have overnight hiked, New Zealand, Patagonia, and Switzerland; Biked unsupported across Norway, from NY → CHI and from Seattle to CA
• Snowboarding!

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• Be direct, honest and won’t beat around the bush.
• Share anecdotes from my own life and experiences that shape my perspectives and how I view the world.
• Help you apply frame-worked thinking around decisions you are making to evaluate them in context